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I think they have only mentioned the figures that would rise with 15 years inflation. The Dublin money wasn't on the table back then and therefore would not be expected to rise with inflation.
However, it must be included in the £170 million figure mentioned at the beginning because the other figures certainly don't get them there.

If the GAA consider that their original funding should be increased to account for inflation, then the £36.5m which Soccer is waiting for for its Sub-Regional funding (part of the original overall deal) should also be adjusted accordingly?

Especially since the delay stemmed from the incompetence etc of the GAA, not that of Soccer (or Rugby); indeed this £36.5m was effectively "held hostage" by successive SF and SDLP Sports Ministers while Casement was trying to be resolved.

Glad you mentioned that as we'd never heard that before

Have been harping on for years to have this built and TBH it's looking less likely, we might actually have a United Irleand before we have a new Casement.
To see the bitter Unionists faces and watch them squirm if this stadium got the green light would be priceless...

Either way the losers in all this is Antrim GAA.

[Casement will NEVER get built.]

The six counties is a shithole, nothing gets done, committees after committees, civil servants lining their pockets whilst absolutely nothing gets done, nothing works, nothing gets done, nothing will ever get done and there is zero accountability anywhere.  Casement will NEVER get built.

Never is a long time...When Ireland is united as one the Irish Government will take care of it .

Great performance & result in Rotterdam 2nite with a 3.1 away win. Rode our luck at times. Martin O'Neill's swansong if rumours are to be believed.

Great win and if i'm honest I wasn't expecting it based on past history. For a club similar to Celtic they really were rotten which was great for Celtic. As Orior says...them guys weren't trying a leg for BR but would have run through brick walls for MON, strange that. In all sports you can be the best around but if your attitude is not right or you're not giving 100% then you become very ordinary.

[Bankers and the Government...]

Cash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

Firstly, not all fraud around cash payments and scams are reported. A relative off mine had 30k in cash stolen by an employee but fcuk all he could do. As soon as you report the crime you will draw lots of attention (and rightly so) on where that cash came from and was it declared. As I told them, that was the risk of doing business the way they have always done and you accepted the risk plus associated loses if the risk was realised. Tough shit or put it all through the books.

Secondly, most on-line scams are not that sophisticated or like something you seen in the movies. Generally they pray on the naivety and distraction of the victim, and typically a similar pattern happened for (to distinguish) off-line scams. At least there is a trail and something to investigate with digital payment scams and in a lot of cases protections in place. With cash, generally you are fcuked unless there is some other evidence. 

Remember you can't legislate for people's stupidity regardless of whether they are scammed online or offline.

A wee bit over the top there, there are plenty of vulnerable people out there espicially the elderly who get scammed on a daily basis so to call them stupid is a bit OTT, not everyone is a brainbox like your fine self.

Where the did I single out the vulnerable or elderly and call them stupid? In fact in my second paragraph I clearly state that scammers prey on naivety of victims. Try reading the post again you thick fcuk instead of throwing out insults.

You can't legislate for someone getting conned out of their life savings because they genuinely believed Brad Pitt contacted them on Facebook messenger, then believed they were in an online relationship with Brad Pitt and he needed 60k for an operation. As I say, some people just can't be helped or in this case protected from their own stupidity regardless.

It's in bold above, your comments and not mine. So take your face for one...

[Bankers and the Government...]

Cash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

Firstly, not all fraud around cash payments and scams are reported. A relative off mine had 30k in cash stolen by an employee but fcuk all he could do. As soon as you report the crime you will draw lots of attention (and rightly so) on where that cash came from and was it declared. As I told them, that was the risk of doing business the way they have always done and you accepted the risk plus associated loses if the risk was realised. Tough shit or put it all through the books.

Secondly, most on-line scams are not that sophisticated or like something you seen in the movies. Generally they pray on the naivety and distraction of the victim, and typically a similar pattern happened for (to distinguish) off-line scams. At least there is a trail and something to investigate with digital payment scams and in a lot of cases protections in place. With cash, generally you are fcuked unless there is some other evidence. 

Remember you can't legislate for people's stupidity regardless of whether they are scammed online or offline.

A wee bit over the top there, there are plenty of vulnerable people out there espicially the elderly who get scammed on a daily basis so to call them stupid is a bit OTT, not everyone is a brainbox like your fine self.

Very sensible indeed. Be interesting to find out how much they'll charge into the games. Be interesting also to see how some of the new faces fare out stepping up a level (or two). Get's you outta the house for a few hours regardless.

[Bankers and the Government...]

Yes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

My point is stop f**king whining about card fees when the real reason is to keep everything off the books.

Or both. Have you seen how much businesses are losing out on in card fees?

It costs businesses money to handle cash. It costs businesses money to handle paper cheques. It costs businesses money to use cards. It costs businesses money to handle money no matter how they do it.

I've never understood this "cash is king" BS. Cash is a pain in the hole. You have to go out of your way to get your hands on the stuff, and the merchant has to either send some poor soul to the bank with a big wad of cash in a bag to drop into the night safe and hope they don't get robbed, or hire a security company to come in an armoured van to cart the stuff around. What's wrong with just tapping the phone? I don't get it.

When I worked for a bakery as a relief salesman, there were some runs where the breadman was trusted to handle cash, and some where they were not, so the shops had direct accounts with the bakery. With the former, you had to futer with calculating the amount owed, write it all out on the docket, make a note of all the shop owed, and collect cash at the end of the week, drive about all day Saturday with a pile of cash building up in your pockets, total that up at the bakery and do even more paperwork to deposit that into the bakery's safe. With the direct accounts you just made a note of what you delivered and dropped the book off at the bakery at the end of the week and let the billing department take care of it. A hundred times more efficient.

There was a lot less fraud where the latter kind of account was involved. If the bakery suspected the breadman was up to no good financially, they made sure all his shops had direct accounts.

The only use I have for cash now is to pay our house cleaner, and even then we could send money to her sister via Zelle. In fact we might just start doing that. I hate having cash sitting in the house. Cash is crap.

Cash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

[There is quite a fundamental reason why Omagh cant be drained and its the lack of an outfall for the drainage.There was a proposed project to rectify the issue that had approval to proceed but Covid intervened and the project was mothballed. It included a full reconstruction of the pitch and the construction of a pumping station to deal with the storm outfall.]

Surely Newry would be suitable.

Have to admit - if they can make the pitch in Newry playable in basically all conditions these days - what excuse does Omagh have?

It's a bog. Common knowledge that Dungannon is a much better venue.

Yeah. It is in a bog. But Newry is half in the sea and the other half in the canal.

Is the Healy Park pitch not above the level of the Killybrack road?

I'm not seeing a fundamental reason why it can't be drained.

I think the Tyrone board need to let Prunty have a look at it.

There is quite a fundamental reason why Omagh cant be drained and its the lack of an outfall for the drainage.

There was a proposed project to rectify the issue that had approval to proceed but Covid intervened and the project was mothballed. It included a full reconstruction of the pitch and the construction of a pumping station to deal with the storm outfall.

The pitch in Omagh has actually been fairly decent over the last couple of years but the scheduling of a double header was questionable in late November. McQuillan made the correct call to abandon but the wrong call to start the game. Both goal mouths were in poor shape but a fairly large square of approx 30m x 30m at the town end of the pitch was unplayable, it was fairly obvious in the first half that Newbridge were trying to avoid using it.

Regarding the call to use Dungannon, it is closed and was probably overused this year for games.

I'm not 100% saying you're wrong about the drainage and it's probably info someone has told you but I doubt very much that's the issue. Omagh pitch is high up the Gortin road and all the storm water runs down the Gortin Road and turns into Strathroy Road where it's discharged into a Watercourse down that road so gravity is not the problem and will not need  pumped. From an Engineering perspective and I've designed quite a few pitches I'd say the problem lies with the old drainage system not being adequate or has not been maintained and is clogged up with silt etc and water is not getting away. From memory that pitch was always heavy and they've had issues with it for years, i'd hazzard a guess and say the top soil is very dense and too much clay which slows the percolation of the water to get to the drainage below. The pitch probably needs relaid with better cambers and crossfalls with an upgrade to the topsoil too, for heavy pitches you can introudce sand slits/gravel bands and also a grit layer under the topsoil depending on how much money you have to spend.

Does shaving the ball sack make em look bigger rite enuf? Asking for a friend

It's the lump hammer you're trying to make look bigger not the baws. My next door nighbour is a beautician and I'd love to ask her to give me the once over (the nether regions that is) for a professional shave but haven't the baws to ask...

Just submitted the complaint form to the Financial Ombudsman Service there...I'll let you know the outcome when it happens...Cheers.

Got an email today from Hastings direct saying that they're going to re-open the case here based on additioanl evidence. I haven't provided them with anything extra from what I had already given them but maybe it had something to do with me lodging my case with Finanical Ambudsman. I'm guessing here but don't know for sure, but it sounds like to me that the Finanical Ambudsman has contacted Hastings Direct and asked them to take another look at it before they investigate it...Dunno, what do you think?.

Great BH, glad to hear that. It's been on hell of a journey for you but great you've come out the right side of it. Go and enjoy yourself and don't look back.

Just submitted the complaint form to the Financial Ombudsman Service there...I'll let you know the outcome when it happens...Cheers.

There's more going on here...The Celtic Board are looking rid of BR, BR will not play any of the Board's signing even if they're better than other players at his disposal. The fans want the Board out and BR is trying to stay with the fans here. This all having and effect on the players and then the punch and judy show on SKY today with NL and that p***k Boyd, fair play to Sutton for putting it up to them.
Where does it all end...I've no idea but what I do know is we'll get pumped next week with a few goals to spare if things don't change ASAP

Id' have galdly paid an extra few hundred for no black box. It was like £1200 saving for a black box, in hindsight now it would have been worth it.